Selected Publications, Presentations, and Blogs
"PacketFu: A Mid-Level Packet Manipulation Library for Ruby" 6 September, 2008
URL: http://planb-security.net/packetfu
"Monkeyspaw: The Greasemonkey Security Professional's Automated Webthinger" (Code) 4 August, 2006
URL: http://www.planb-security.net/userscripts/#monkeyspaw
"Phishing Detection and Prevention: Practical Counter-Fraud Solutions" 15 August, 2005.
URL: http://www.planb-security.net/wp/503167-001_PhishingDetectionandPrevention.pdf
"Snacktime: A Perl Solution for Remote OS Fingerprinting." (Code) 22 June, 2003.
URL: http://www.planb-security.net/wp/snacktime.html
"Plan B: Security, Technology, and the Law"
URL: http://www.planb-security.net/
"BreakingPoint Labs Blog"
URL: http://www.breakingpointsystems.com/community/blog/authors/tbeardsley
Speaking Experience
Lone Star Ruby Conf, 2008
"PacketFu with Ruby"
TippingPoint DVCast, 2006-2008
"Weekly Digital Vaccine Podcat," a technical podcast for TippingPoint DV subscribers.
Black Hat Briefings, 2006
"Investigating Evil Websites with Monkeyspaw: The Greasemonkey Security Professional's Automated Webthinger"
RSA Conference, 2006
"Phishing: Defensive Strategies and Countermeasures"
SummerCon, 2005
"Trolling for Skank: A Phishing Primer"
Missouri State Bankers' Symposium, 2005
"Directions in Online Fraud"
Other Professional Distinctions
Member of the IEEE (2008 - 2010)
Founding Member of Austin Hackers Anonymous! (2006)
Nominee for 3Com's "Innovator of the Year" award (2005)
Advisory board member of the GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst program (2002-2004)
Education
University of Redlands
Major field of study: Pre-Law (1992)
Austin Community College
Major field of study: Computer Science (Present)
Civic Positions
Science Fair Judge, Harmony School of Science, 2009
Travis County Election Judge, 2004 - 2008
Director of Sarah's Creek Homeowners Association, Inc. 2007 - 2008
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Work Experience
Austin, TX
(January, 2010 - Present)
Software Developer, reporting directly to the CSO.
Research and implement various application protocols for the Metasploit Framework.
BreakingPoint Systems, Inc. | Austin, TX
(February, 2008 - January 2010)
Lead Application Protocol Engineer for BreakingPoint's award winning Strike Team, reporting directly to the CTO.
Research, reverse, and implement both open and proprietary network application protocols
Provide independent technical expertise for internal and public consumption
Develop exploits targeting public, private, and zero-day vulnerabilities for BreakingPoint Strikes
Produce open source software for the network test and security community at large
TippingPoint Technologies, a division of 3Com | Austin, TX
(July, 2004 - February, 2008)
Senior Engineer for TippingPoint's DVLabs
Lead counter-fraud engineer, responsible for R&D for new anti-phishing technologies
Produced exploit and vulnerability IPS filters on an aggressive semiweekly schedule
Acquired by 3Com
Dell, Inc. | Austin, TX
(August, 2000 - July, 2004)
Lead intrusion detection analyst and engineer
Develop methods and tools for global penetration testing
Research, publish, and present enterprise standards for system host hardening
Source W (a Westinghouse company) | Trafford, PA
(November, 1999 - August, 2000)
Manager of first level IT support and asset management team
Develop alerting infrastructure for all servers and network devices
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